Tried Quotes

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won.

It's hard enough losing without the confusion of knowing I tried.

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

The only time I did one puff was in Holland, where it's legal. And I went to a cafeteria with some girls, with the little boats and the canals and we stopped and I tried. Nothing. No. But I didn't choke. I took one puff and I said, 'Okay, nothing happened!' It was funny. It was, for us, like cheating. 'Oooh!' You know, there might be paparazzi!'

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.